The series started with The Egg and I (1947) starring my favourite actress Claudette Colbert.Her Husband Fred MacMurray buys a property in the suburbs which actually is a village with the idea of setting up a Egg Farm and earning profit from it.But all his efforts fall apart as one misfortune after another follows and Claudette Colbert's patience is umpteenth time tested.Ma and Pa Kettle are their neighbour played by MARJORIE MAIN and PERCY KILBRIDE.After this movie Ma and Pa Kettle series started which continued for 9 more movies which still delight audience with their riotous humour and crazy antics.
Marjorie Main is tall heavy built and powerful,she is the brainy and decisive one.Percy Kilbride is thin unassuming,lazy and speaks in dragging voice.Their are two Red Indians too who work on their farm.
Most remarkable is the dinner time when Ma shouts "come and get it" and all fifteen kids rush in to the dinner table.There's a old radio which change channels whenever Pa jumps on his rocking chair.Then there are those hens who keep laying eggs in unimaginable places especially in guest's hats.Once they are shown in a really modern house with all kinds of innovative gadgets beating even those new James Bond movies.They keep taking part in various contests and keep winning strange prizes.Once a convict hoodwinks them to stay in the house and look after children while they are gone.But kids prove to be too much for him.A bit of TinTin like adventure here too when a guy a asks Pa to deliver an envelope to himself in Paris but gets killed on arrival in his hotel room.Pa and Ma with their sensible friend manage to outsmart crooks.
Marjorie Main was famous for talking on the set to her dead husband! In some cases, they'd have to re-shoot scenes because she'd just start having conversations with him out of the blue! Apparently she was a very, very eccentric lady!!
Movie of this series are great family movies which you can watch again and again.
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